Carol Adele Gooss, loved to sing

Carol Adele Gooss, soon to be 86, died peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, at Country Rest Home in Greenwood after a short illness. Carol grew up in Oradell, N.J., attending Douglas College, and completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education at Farleigh Dickinson. She moved with her husband to Georgetown in 1964 to raise her family and has lived here ever since.

Carol spent most of her adult life in the Episcopal Church and was a very active member singing in the choir and helping with parish suppers. With a lifelong love of music, Carol sang with many groups from high school through college, Sweet Adelines, church choirs and the Southern Delaware Choral Society. She also helped deliver Meals on Wheels for many years.  

Carol was preceded in death by her beloved parents, John and Mildred Trich. She is survived by her sister, Joan Loiacono of Cedar Grove, N.J.; her children Linda Belkot (Gary), Donald Gooss (Ligia), John Gooss (Joni), and Sandra Gooss, all of Georgetown; 12 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Carol will be remembered by all who knew and loved her as a woman who had a fondness for the ironies of life, a deep trust that all will be well, a generous heart, and an abiding devotion to the welfare of her family…as she would say, an old shoe. She will be greatly missed.  

A celebration of life will be held in the spring for family and friends.

Online condolences may be sent by visiting melsonfuneralservices.com.